bathing – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Bathing Laughing Gull in breeding plumage

By Mia McPherson|2021-08-16T13:30:07-05:00September 2nd, 2012|Categories: Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Laughing Gulls, Pinellas County|Tags: adult, bath, bathing, breeding plumage, coast, coastal, eye contact, gull, gulls, lagoon, Laughing Gull, Leucophaeus atricilla, water, wings|

I photographed this adult Laughing Gull (Larus atricilla) in breeding plumage while it bathed in the shallow waters of a tidal lagoon at Fort De Soto's north beach a few years ago.

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Ruddy Turnstone Bathing

By Mia McPherson|2021-05-17T06:53:29-05:00August 1st, 2012|Categories: Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Ruddy Turnstones|Tags: Arenaria interpres, bathing, bird photography, coast, coastal, lagoon, Ruddy Turnstone, shorebirds, spring, turnstone, turnstones, water|

This Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres) image was created several years ago at Fort De Soto County Park's north beach in central Florida.

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Willets in Beaverhead County, Montana

By Mia McPherson|2021-04-25T10:08:14-05:00July 29th, 2012|Categories: Beaverhead County, Birds, Montana, Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Willets|Tags: adult, bathing, calling, immature, juvenile, lake, lake shore, lakeshore, lakeside, plumage, shorebirds, stretching, summer, Tringa semipalmata, Tringa semipalmata inornata, valley, water, Willet, willets, wing, wing lift, young|

These images were taken at Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge in southwestern Montana. There were two Willets; an adult and a juvenile, on the shoreline of the lower lake that delighted me.

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Killdeer – Wash, Fluff and Dry

By Mia McPherson|2024-03-19T07:09:03-05:00May 2nd, 2012|Categories: Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Killdeer, Utah|Tags: adult, bath, bathing, behavior, Charadrius vociferus, fluffed up, Killdeer, marsh, plover, plovers, preening, puddle, shorebirds, splashing, spring, water, water droplets, wetlands|

Last week I photographed a Killdeer bathing at Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area in Davis County, Utah.

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